2022年11月10日

为了确定该省的30个中心是否仍然面临家庭医生短缺的问题，Postmedia News向卫生部询问了最新的人员配备数据。从周一到周五的早上7点直接发送到你的收件箱，开始你的一天。电子邮件地址注册通过点击注册按钮，您同意从Postmedia Network Inc.接收上述通讯。您可以通过点击我们邮件底部的退订链接随时退订。地址:安大略省多伦多市布罗尔街东365号邮编:M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300感谢您的报名!欢迎的电子邮件正在路上。如果你没有看到，请检查你的垃圾文件夹。下一期《温哥华太阳报》的《日出》将很快收到您的收件箱。我们在你注册时遇到了麻烦。请再试一次文章内容一份名为《初级保健劳动力补充》的文件于5月由卑斯省自由党泄露，该文件显示，大多数紧急初级保健中心(简称upcc)只有应有的一小部分家庭医生。 The document, which covered the period Feb. 4 to March 3, showed, for example, that the Westshore urgent primary care centre had one doctor out of the seven full-time doctors it was supposed to have. However, the latest document provided to Postmedia News, covering the period between June 24 to July 21, 2022, combines all full-time staff — which includes family physicians, nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses, allied health workers, clinical pharmacists and Indigenous resources — into one single category. Advertisement 3 Article content That makes it impossible to determine how many family doctors work at each urgent primary care centre. The document shows primary care centres in the Island Health region continues to struggle with staffing: The region’s six centres have 88 full-time clinical staff, 46 positions shy of the 134 positions approved. Interior Health needs another 20 clinical staff before it reaches its full staffing complement at its seven centres. Fraser Health has hired 69 of the 80 full-time clinical staff approved for the six centres. Staffing in Vancouver Coastal Health has improved with 92 full-time clinical staff out of the 97 positions approved. Northern Health is just one full-time position short of the 13 approved for its two centres. Advertisement 4 Article content B.C. Liberal health critic Shirley Bond slammed the government for reducing transparency at a time when British Columbians without a family doctor want to know where to turn for urgent medical needs. “To find out that now there is once again a lack of willingness to provide specific details about individual UPCCs is just par for the course for this government,” she said. “British Columbians deserve to know the situation in UPCCs across the province.” The B.C. Liberals have called for a review of the primary care centres to determine if the health-authority run system of team-based care is working as it should. Health Minister Adrian Dix has touted thee centres and the larger system of team-based primary care networks as a way for people without a family doctor to get same-day appointments for urgent needs. The goal is also for patients to become attached to a physician, nurse practitioner or other medical professional in the team who can provide continuing care. Advertisement 5 Article content However, the centres have struggled to keep up with patient demand, often putting up signs early in the morning saying appointments are full for the day. Chilliwack family physician Darren Joneson — who has raised concerns about the government spending millions in taxpayer dollars on the clinics without listening to family physicians on the best way to operate them — said staffing levels are an indirect measure of whether people are getting the care they need. The urgent primary care centre in Chilliwack only has one doctor and Joneson has heard from family physicians who turned down jobs at the centre because there’s frustration with the way they’re being run by the health authorities. “There’s not a whole lot of support from family doctors over this current rollout of UPCCs. We’re seeing that it’s hard to get family doctors (to work) there,” said Joneson, who opened his team-based clinic Spectrum Medical in 2020. Advertisement 6